Kristine Neate

Executive Vice President, Chief of Staff

Kristine Neate serves as Westfield's Chief of Staff, where she supports the coordination, efficiency, and effectiveness of the enterprise leadership team and broader Westfield organization. In this role, Kristine ensures alignment across strategic, high-priority initiatives; increases the depth and breadth of enterprise leadership’s organizational perspective; and provides thought leadership and orchestration of strategic enterprise communications.

Since joining Westfield in 1993, Kristine has had a diverse set of career experiences, with a focus in commercial lines. These roles have included field underwriting, new to career hire recruiting and training, marketing, and several leadership roles in product development, risk control, and premium audit. Kristine played a key leadership role in the Small Business Transformation and previously served as interim Chief Human Resources Officer.

Kristine has a bachelor’s in marketing from Miami University of Ohio. She is a graduate of Leadership Medina County, former Medina City Schools Foundation board member, former Medina County Operation H.O.M.E.S board member, and 2015 recipient of the YWCA Women of Professional Excellence award.